Thiourea metal complexes

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Several metal complexes have been described with urea, thiourea or dimethyl derivatives [49,50]. We will focus in this section on the coordination chemistry of substituted ureas and thioureas used as neutral Ugands as well as many ureato and thioureato anions complexed to metal centres. 

Due to their stability and their easy formation, many examples of transition metal complexes containing benzoyl-substituted thiourea ligands have been described [59-62]. Most of them concern Ft species in which the thiourea ligands behave as monoanions and are bounded to the metal centre through the S and O atoms, forming a six-member ring system (Scheme 10). 

Non-ionic thiourea derivatives have been used as ligands for metal complexes [63,64] as well as anionic thioureas and, in both cases, coordination in metal clusters has also been described [65,66]. Examples of mononuclear complexes of simple alkyl- or aryl-substituted thiourea monoanions, containing N,S-chelating ligands (Scheme 11), have been reported for rhodium(III) [67,68], iridium and many other transition metals, such as chromium(III), technetium(III), rhenium(V), aluminium, ruthenium, osmium, platinum [69] and palladium [70]. Many complexes with N,S-chelating monothioureas were prepared with two triphenylphosphines as substituents. 

The earliest NLO studies involving metal pyridyl complexes were reported by Frazier et al. in 1986 who investigated the SHG properties of various group 6 metal pyridyl carbonyls.63 Although most of the complexes tested show little or no activity, (6) and (7) have respective SHG efficiencies of 0.2 and 1.0 times ADP using a 1,064 nm laser.63 Shortly after, Calabrese and Tam reported SHG from the Re1 complex (8).64 Subsequent studies by Eaton and Tam et al.65,66 describe the preparation of inclusion compounds of various metal complexes with thiourea or tris-ort/ o-thymotide. Unfortunately, none of the complexes [W(CO)5L] (L = pyridine, py, or a 4-substituted py) produce SHG-active materials.65,66... 

In screening a library of these molecules with a variety of metal ions, it was found that the ligand in the absence of added metal was more active than the metal complexes tested. Three libraries were synthesized where sequential changes were made in the structures contained in each library. Ultimately, ligand 64, with a thiourea linker, was found to catalyze the Strecker reaction between benzaldehyde and HCN in 91% ee (Scheme 8). This system also catalyzed the addition of HCN to aliphatic aldehydes with selectivities of > 80% ee. 

The most practical approach is the direct treatment of azolium salts with metal complexes under neutral or basic conditions [39,154-159]. Alternatively, the free carbenes can be generated in the presence of a suitable metal complex by reduction of a carbene precursor, e.g. a thiourea [160]. Stable, uncomplexed imidazoline-2-ylidenes, isolated for the first time in 1991 by Arduengo [161] (for further examples see [162-166]), are also convenient starting materials for the preparation of carbene complexes [167,168]. The corresponding diaminocarbene complexes can be obtained by treatment of the stable diaminocarbenes with transition metal complexes. Finally, at high temperatures many transition metal complexes catalyze the carbon-carbon bond scission of tetraaminoethylenes, forming carbene complexes [169-171]. Examples of such preparations are given in Table 2.8. 

The reaction of thiourea derivatives with a metal complex to form NHC complexes is a combination of the NHC formation from thioureas with potassium or sodium [Eq. (23)] and the cleavage of electron rich olefins. For example, a lO-S-3-tetraazapentalene derivative is cleaved by Pd(PPh3)4 and [(Ph3P)3RhCl], respectively [Eq. (35)]. Other substitution patterns in the carbene precursor, including selenium instead of sulfur can also be used. ... 

Fig. 15. The stereoisomeric thiourea-platinum complexes shown in (a) display large 4/ptjC couplings for the a-carbon atom in that branch of the X.X-dialkyl substituent which is in a favourable W configuration with respect to the metal atom (thick bonds). The assignment of the (fortuitously overlapping) H and 195Pt NMR signals of all three stereoisomers was feasible by means of indirect detection of these couplings from a XH detected H/(13C)/195Pt correlation spectrum which is shown in (b) together with the one-dimensional and 195Pt NMR projections. Reproduced from Ref. 44 by permission of John Wiley Sons.

These two reactions are limited by the fact that a nitro group must be present on the benzene ring to facilitate the elimination of the chlorine atom. However, this restriction may be removed by the use of a transition-metal complex—most often, a nickel(O) catalyst. The starting compounds are 2-iodobenzoic acid derivatives 91 (amides, nitriles, and esters) and MA-disubstituted thioureas. In this case, electron-acceptor groups in the benzene ring are not obligatory the reaction is general and allows one... 

On the coordination chemistry side, ligand substitution on metal complexes in ILs has attracted quite some interest. This is mainly due to the fact that both spectroscopic and catalytic properties are strongly governed by the nature of the ligands and the stability of their bond to a metal center. Begel et al. have studied the role of different ILs on ligand substitution reactions on [Pt(terpy)Cl]+ (terpy = 2,2 6, 2"-terpyridine) with thiourea with stopped-flow techniques. The substitution kinetics show similar trends if compared to conventional solvents with similar polarities. Moreover, much like in conventional solvents, the authors find an associative character of the substitution reaction [205], These results are essentially supporting an earlier study by Weber et al., who found the same behavior [206],... 

A large number of metal complexes of ligands containing sulfur, selenium, and tellurium are known. Here the vibrational spectra of typical compounds will be reviewed briefly. For SO, and thiourea complexes that form metal-sulfur bonds, see Sec. IIl-ll and 111-13, respectively. 

It has been reported that W-methylthiourea forms S-bonds with Zn" and Cd" but N-bonds with Pd , Pt , Pt and Cu this seems unlikely and needs confirmation. However, complexes of iV,iV -dimethylthiourea and iV,iV,iV, Ai -tetramethylthiourea with a range of metals are all S-bonded. Bis-chelated complexes [MLj] (M = Co, Ni, Cu) are formed by a number of N,N -diaryl-iV-hydroxythioureas (26 LH) with the ligand bound through sulfur and oxygen. Diphenylphosphinothioyl derivatives of thiourea form complexes such as (27) in which the ligand acts as an S,S-donor. ... 

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